[sdiy] Useful S/PDIF part?

[Anthony Bisset]

more than you want to know about DIY spdif here:

http://www.epanorama.net/documents/audio/spdif.html

Also, someone in sweden had built a universal spdif converter circuit
which had nice features.  His circuit documentation was DIY friendly.
I can't find his address, if you care, try "universal spdif" or it's
variations.

-a

On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Johannes Öberg wrote:

> The local part supplier is selling out these babies cheaply (about $7), and
> I'm already placing an order for other stuff:
>
> http://www.elfa.se/elfa-bin/setpage.pl?http://www.elfa.se/elfa-bin/dyndok.pl?dok=220856.htm
> (datasheet for CS 8402 at http://www.elfa.se/pdf/73/738/07384027.pdf)
>
> It's a DIP24 serial in -> S/PDIF out ic. Since I am crazy enough to love the
> SoundBlaster OPL3 FM sound, I've been wanting to add an S/PDIF out to get
> rid of noise and easy integration into the studio. Also "have a plan"
> (dreaming) of adding S/PDIF to my EPS16+. (yep, can be bought, but hard to
> find an expensive). And it's always nice with S/PDIF right? :-)
>
> Would this part be useful and suitable for these types of things? To me it
> looks like it would only be a matter of this chip + some passive stuff and
> opamp buffering to get S/PDIF out of anything. This sounds too good to be
> true, so I figured I'd ask before stocking up. Am I correct in assuming
> similiar chips will be hard to come by in the future, with all the ROHS
> craziness and stuff?
>
> /J
>